Captain Brandt - Military liaison to Grayson, saves the day by getting mashed under several tons of prehistoric snake.

Lisa and Karen - Martin's daughters, I have a feeling they weren't allowed to date much during high schoo1.

Mrs. Miller - Female scientist.

Peterson - Autistic Neanderthal dressed in overalls, where did they get this guy?

Reptilicus - The most dangerous two hundred feet of rubber snake which ever menaced a small country in Europe.

The Plot:

So you wanted to know about the meanest thing to ever come out of Denmark huh? Well here it is, two hundred feet of slime spitting, farmer eating, and model building wrecking snake. Which isn't really the main attraction for the first half hour, that would be Peterson. Who in the heck dropped him down the steps as a baby? Not only does he wander around (Apparently in a quest to discover fire.) the guy decides to view his lunch under a microscope (Never a good idea with active microbes and all.) and also decides to "play" with the electric eel. Okay, enough on him, there's a huge snake puppet to talk about. Seems that copper miners found the remains of a monster which had been frozen for millions of years in arctic permafrost. Nevermind that it appears to be rural Georgia during spring where they are mining, nor that the ground is soft and obviously not frozen, it's millions of years old. A length of the tail is carted back to Copenhagen, where a newspaper reporter coins the name during a press conference. (Hehehe!) During studies the freezing room door is left open, rather than decomposing the tail section begins to rapidly regenerate in a whole creature! One stormy night it fully awakens and breaks free, that's when General Grayson is called in to find and destroy the beast. As usual tanks and bombs are no match for latex, the creature rampages through the city. You seriously have to see the HORRID special effects when Reptilicus spits "acid slime" at people, it's a wave of colorized green stuff washing over the entire movie frame. Lucky for the military Professor Martin's daughters mix up a special batch of tranquilizer to incapacitate the creature, leaving it helpless for disposal. The horrid beast is fantastically amusing, it's mouth barely moves and most of the effects are easily recreated with a two dollar rubber snake from the toy store filmed in slow motion.

Things I Learned From This Movie:

High above the arctic circle it's always springtime.

Fossils bleed.

European girls don't get enough lovin'.

Flesh frozen at negative twenty degrees is supple and easy to cut.

Deli food is full of water fleas.

Danish lounge singers shouldn't croon in English.

Depth charges cause heart attacks.

When there is a people chomping sea monster on the loose stay off the beach.

Special effects have come a long way since 1962.

Giant monsters are always attracted to Japanese architecture, even in Europe they will find and destroy a pagoda.

Generals are crack shots with a bazooka.

Stuff To Watch For:

3 mins - Spring! It's spring in the artic!

6 mins - What do you mean it makes sense?

8 mins - Guess they haven't invented those "DO NOT TAP ON THE GLASS" signs.

13 mins - What are you anyway, a retarded caveman?

26 mins - What in the heck? Mom! Moron is playing with the electric eel! Now he woke up the monster!

Grayson: "Somewhere in the forbidding tundra mountains of Lapland, high above the arctic circle, a group of mining engineers were prospecting for copper. But what they unearthed was a story, a story that was to terrorize the whole world."

Yea sure this movie and BAD MOVIES like it are somewhat lame compared to todays standard, but these are the ones that bring back great memeorys for me, and no CPU image of Godzilla all buffed up is gonna take their place!!!I cheer the rubber-suited lame puppet monsters of the past!

For laughs, listen carefully and pick apart the creature's "roar." There's all kinds of sounds, all playing at once, including a klaxon horn! God!And the lounge singer's music, "Dancing In Tivoli," plays merrily over the end credits! What the Hell did I ever do to deserve THAT!?

Stan Winston, the effects guru, hosted a monster movie show on AMC Classics. Ususally he gave a 5-10 minute capsule version highlighting the special effects. For this movie, he more or less just said "let's watch." I guess management thought that the sight of him weeping for 10 minutes might turn away some viewers.

Okay, so like don't get me wrong, I love "BAD MOVIES", but this one rates very high on the "HORRID" list. Lousy monster, lousy backdrops, lousy acting etc. But you gotta like the travelogue eight in the middle. Right? Right!!!

Reply #8. Posted on January 12, 2000, 10:31:30 AM by Niels from Denmark

I love this movie it's the best "bad movie" since The Blob. Some more stuff to watch for ( in the DK version, I do not know the USA version) is the singing scene whit Dirch Mikkelsen (played by Dirch Passer who were cast for every danish movie in the 60ts or else it could not sell)is "syncronised" so bad. And why is this scene in the movie any way.